Hi Marg Thanks for replying and I will look at the web pages you gave me. I will also beg everyones pardon in advance if I am on the wrong web site. I have been in a bit of a muddle here as I didn't know you could find passenger lists until yesterday and wrote without really thinking it through. I know that William and Thomas Blandford were on the ship as they were baptised a second time on board. I think what I am really looking for is the port in England where the David McIver sailed from. Reason being is that I have found William on the 1851 census in Gloucestershire. However so far, I cannot find Thomas anywhere, I thought that if I found where the ship left England, that might be the place to look for him. I even thought that maybe the David McIver might have sailed twice. Silly me. In those days a trip to Australia and back would have probably taken the good part of a year. I expect that I am on the completely wrong request web, but it is the only one I could think of at the time. As I said, not thinking right, if William was on the 1851 censusand there was only been one sailing between when the census was taken and 19th May 1952 when they ship docked at Quarantine Station, North Head, Sydney, NSW. I think I was also hoping that someone could throw light on the fact that the Church had paid for the voyage and they had to refund this charge. How did the church expect repayment? Was there some sort of "collector" who went round these people to obtain this?" I have been given a lot of information about the family from the David McIver to the present day. It is the bit where they got on board I am hazy about. Eveline ----- Original Message ----- From: "MargM" <genknut@optusnet.com.au> To: <TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 11:26 PM Subject: Re: [TSL] The David McIver > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eveline Clarke" <aclarke22@toucansurf.com> > To: <TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 5:26 AM > Subject: [TSL] The David McIver > > > Hi Eveline > > > My Australian line has asked if I could find out any > > information about people who travelled to Australia in > > 1852 on board the ship David McIver which arrived in > > Sydney 19th May 1852. > > I should have thought it would have been far easier for > them as they would have better access to Australian > records ................. > > > > I am in particular looking for Thomas Blandford with > > wife Emma and William Blandford with his wife > > Elizabeth. William and Elizabeth had two children Mercy > > who died on board the ship on the way over and Jane who > > died in 1852 in the Quarantine Station, North > > Head,Sydney. > > > >>From what I have heard from my Australian cousins, the > >>church paid the passage and they had to pay them back. > > Could well be. This ship carried assisted migrants . So > someone along the line subsidised the cost of their > passage > > > > I have asked on Family history and our local look-ups > > and although I have had replies without the use of the > > web (it brings up the page but won't let me access > > anything) I cannot get much further. > > > The web site you needed would be > > NSW State Records www.records.nsw.gov.au > on line > indexes> assisted passenger arrivals 1844-59 to Newcastle > / Sydney . > Which gets you to http://tinyurl.com/pxgh7 > > These films are to be found in many Australian libraries . > You can get copy for the price of photocopying .......... > Far less than what State Records charge > > Indexes to NSW BDM records are on line > www.bdm.nsw.gov.au > historic docs. You can get > transcriptions of many records > > Hope this helps > > Bye > > MargM > Beautiful Central Coast of NSW > Need Help ? > Try: http://raogk.org/faq-requesters.htm > > > > > > > > > ==== TheShipsList Mailing List ==== > TheShipsList Searchable Archives Database > http://www.oulton.com/cwa/newsships.nsf/by+date > TheShipsList RootsWeb Archives > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TheShipsList/ > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* > >